Is whiskey from Celtic usquebaugh the only Celtic word in English except for some place names? Sad to think it, but I am a Celt and the only Celtic word I know is usquebaugh. Somebody stole my language. Drat those Anglo Saxons. If you ever go across the sea to Ireland you won't find many Celtic words. Try Wales. I once watched a TV documentary in Wales. It was about lancing pus out of boils in cattle. I didn't really want to understand what was being said in Welch.

Celtic is a division of the PIE (Proto Indo-European) language group. It is thought that much of Europe once spoke Celtic. Celts once occupied central to western Europe including the British Isles. The northern Celtic languages are also called Gaelic. I do not believe there is any remnant of Celtic except of Gaelic. When the Germanic hordes overran England they extinguished the British language entirely. In time Erse (Scottish Gaelic), Manx, Irish (Irish is sometimes called Erse. The words Erse and Irish are definitely etymologically related), and Cornish, have been pretty much erased. Brittany Gaelic is spoken by a few.

Welch is the only Celtic/Gaelic language that has a large speaker group and it is fading. I never learned Welch but am fascinated by it. I have visited Wales several times. To me it seems the most difficult language there is. It has very long words and reading is very difficult to learn. It is said that the word "stop" in Welch is too long to put on a stop sign. It is long but I have seen it on stop signs.

My wife's maiden name is Erwin and it is etymologically linked to Erse and Éireann. Her ancestors came to Scotland from Ireland and were given that name by the Scots. Notice also that the nation of Ireland calls itself "The Republic of Éireann" (Poblacht na hÉireann in Irish).

Celtic Women and Celtic Thunder (men) are two popular Irish singing groups featured on Public Television. Riverdance is also Celtic. Then there are the Boston Celtics.

English is a Germanic language with a Germanic/Latin name. The only Celtic word we have left is whiskey, and I am a teetotaler.

Thank you for the additional Celtic words, eberntson. Tor for mountain and avon for river are also cletic but we only see them in place names. For any of the several rivers in England named Avon. Their name, translated is River River. Later rivers were named Afton and probably come from the same Celtic source.

I love Wales, If I wasn't older than dirt and didn't have my wonderful family and extended family here in the USA, I would like to live in an isolated village in northern Wales. I have been there several times. Southern Wales is just like England but northern and central Wales is an enchanted land. Just cross the Black Mounains and you are in another universe.